MONDAY’S GAME

Warriors at Cavs, 8 p.m., TNT

quarter, which led to an Oladipo foul shot.

“Lance is just a little dirty that’s all,” James said. “He’s a little dirty. We got a history so I already know that. I should’ve known. I’ve known since school, it’s not the guy who tells the joke who gets caught, it’s the guy who laughs. So they caught me on the retaliation, so, but he played well tonight.”

The Cavs were without Isaiah Thomas (back-toback restriction) and Dwyane Wade (rest); the Pacers missed Myles Turner (elbow injury).

Jose Calderon started in Thomas’ place and scored eight points. He missed a wide-open 3 with 1:42 to go. James followed with bad misses on a 3-point try and a jumper inside of 70 seconds.

“It was a great effort,” Cavs coach Tyronn Lue said. “With D-Wade out and I.T. out. Guys may have been a little tired, but I thought we fought and played with the right purpose, defensively especially. We’ve just got to continue to build off that.”

The Pacers led 76-74 through three quarters and Indiana opened the second half on an 11-0 run, stopped by a James 3-pointer with 8:43 left. The Pacers tied the game at 74 on Stephenson’s 3-ball with 1:48 to go, and Collison’s jumper with 10.8 seconds remaining gave Indiana its first lead since the score was 6-4.

Indiana clawed back into the game with 5 3s in the third quarter. The Cavs, meanwhile, shot 6 of 21, having lost the considerable rhythm they’d built in the first half.

“Came out in that third qu ar ter just walk i ng around,” Lue said. “We d i d n’t push, we di d n’t attack. It could’ve been a little tired or fatigue, I’m not sure. But we really didn’t attack in that third quarter. Just walking around.”